Uplift Harris will give $500 a month to participants around Houston, Texas, with payments set to begin in April. Houston’s basic-income program faces shutdown after Texas’ attorney general labels it "unconstitutional."
The program offers 18 monthly payments of $500 to low-income families for housing and groceries.
Uplift Harris starts payments April 24, but its future remains uncertain amid GOP opposition. When Delwin Sutton learned he had been accepted into a guaranteed basic-income pilot in Houston, he signed a lease on a new apartment.He spent almost all of his savings on his April rental fees and plans to spend his […]
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